What would the game plan revert to if tomorrow, Russia invaded

[HysteryDiagnosis]

Afghanistan, citing them as a terrorist threat and was doing so to protect Moscow and the rest of the Russian homeland. Would we support the Mujahadeen again? Would we sidle up to the Taliban? Would we use them again and then discard them like an old shoe.... one wonders about such things, probably better not to though.

[NoPasaran]

1. If we were smart

I think we would welcome the arrival of the Russian Army and wish them luck.

[Parisle]

2. This Is Easy,...

---- We would quickly join forces with Russia and, while discussions of military strategy were taking place, we would find time to apprise them of the great advances we've made in directional drilling. The US and Russia are going to end up being allies, folks, It may take a while,... but it's going to happen.

[havocmom]

3. Sidle up to the Taliban? We wouldn't do that!

uh, no, wait, we DID that.... in the beginning of Taliban.

History is funny stuff.

[SoCalDem]

4. The mujahadeen we abandoned BECAME the taliban

or so I thought I read..

After the Soviets were sent packing, the Afghanis expected their friends, the US, to help them rebuild their country, and we said.. "nice knowin' ya", and skeedaddled..

With NO law and no real government, the mujihadeen morphed into the Taliban..

Since a lot of them were not even Afghani, some went back to their home countries, but the ones who stayed, became the law..:(

[NoPasaran]

5. After the Soviets left the various mujihadeen warlords fought each other

After the Soviets left the various mujihadeen warlords fought each other, further wrecking what was left of the country after a decade of fighting the occupation (as well as the several years of rebellion against the pro-Soviet government that had proceeded it and led to the intervention in the first place). The Taliban were new players (or at least they claimed to be) who did succeed for a while in establishing some sort of internal peace for several years although they were never able to extend their rule over the entire country. In 2001, several of the once-mujihadeen groups still made up the Northern Alliance, which the US adapted as its proxy army in lieu of committing large numbers of our own ground forces.